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Yes, the evil eye exists, but not in the naïve sense that someone simply looks at you in a certain way and something bad happens. It is much deeper than that.
We are all connected by our desires in a single, enormous desire that was created by a higher force of love, bestowal, and connection that dwells in nature. This is a unified system. Therefore, through our desires, each of us influences everyone else from the root of their soul. When we think badly about someone, when we harbor envy, hatred, rejection, we harm both them and ourselves. We act through our desire, and desire is a force.
Most of this happens involuntarily. People mostly do not realize it, but why is there so much negative phenomena in our world? It is because we think negatively about each other. This is the evil eye. Does anyone genuinely wish good to another without calculation? Of course not. Our entire world lives on rejection, on people pushing one another away internally.
From the outset, we are not directed at goodness. We are not built with a natural inclination to care for one another. If someone behaves well toward us, we might respond well, but only under certain conditions. By default, we have no good feelings toward others. Why should we? Our nature is egoistic, i.e., a desire to receive at the expense of others.
It is unpleasant to admit this, but a person is created in evil. This is our foundation. There is no escaping it. Only a very precise form of education can raise us out of this egoistic swamp, to pull us out, cleanse us, and then begin to fill us with something good. Without undergoing such a form of education, which is a correction process, our inner gaze remains negative.
This is precisely what the wisdom of Kabbalah deals with. It teaches how to transform the evil intention, this negative gaze on which our world currently exists, into a good one. It is a method of correction, of how to elevate a person from a world built on rejection into a world built on benevolent connection. That new perception, that good gaze, is called “the spiritual world.”
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on January 21, 2026. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.